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Anyone having the same issues I am try this worked great for me.... Are you using Google Chrome by any chance? We have noticed on several occasions that in certain instances, DDE will not work if Google Chrome is running. Somehow Chrome's inter-process communication interferes with DDE...

You are the freakin man! thank you thank you!

I have done this and now when I check "Enable DDE Clients" in TWS i no longer get the error msg. But I still can't get the TWSDDE.xls to work. When I type in a quote in the tickers tab and click on the Market Request button excel simply freezes and locks up on me. I am using Windows 7...

I guess I hit it lucky cause there were some time in the past where there were some really big dips. They had concerns, as I did, lol. But nothing major out of the ordinary. Btw, thanks for your contribution to this interesting thread. Some good discussion here and helpful.

I have been trading for neighbors and friends since 2006. The trading has had some major ups and downs since then. I told everyone up front though that only to trade money they don't have to count on and I may lose their money. Overall, things have worked out well for them though. In order...

FYI, The state that you live in will sponsor you to take these exams (series 7, 65, etc...) just call the correct state office. By having the state sponsor you that frees you to choose any broker you want. You aren't locked in to any higher priced broker. I choose to use IB.

Joe, When placing orders using the iphone app with a F&F account or as being an advisor can you place them using an "account allocation" instead of going in and place an order in each individual account. For example, I have several clients that I trade the S&P e mini for and instead of going...

By far without a doubt Trade Like a Hedge Fund was the one book that I read and got TONS of ideas from. I started to make money on a consistent basis after reading that one. Why did it help me so much? It made me focus on that type of trading. To quantify as much of your trading as...

Totally agree here.

ROFLMAO

Actually you can use the free service with logmein. So the only monthly/annual costs are the service for wireless broadband.

my suggestion would be to do this... Get an iphone or any large screen windows mobile phone and then download the application for www.logmein.com. You will be able to use your home computer for all the heavy lifting and use the phone to see your computer at your home. I have the Nokia...

I have this http://www.cradlepoint.com/products/ctr350-mobile-broadband-router with a car charger so I am like a rolling wi-fi hotspot going down the highway. I have an alltel usb modem and get great speeds on it. I use this while in the car and at work so I actually have a whole...

I traded with them a few years ago. Overall a good experience. Considering opening up another account with them if i can ever get rid of the day job. The only not positive experience is that when trying to learn Laser they went over it really really fast and were kinda rude. So I had to...

I have found the exact same thing. My trading didn't really take off until I started to use time stops. The bad part is that sometimes you have to sit through some major hits until your time stop triggers. That is what I have found to be the hardest part. Sitting through a trade going...